Possible Outage Resolved

Grok possible outage on Aug 4, 2026 — 10 minutes incident report

Grok appeared to experience a possible outage for 10 minutes on Aug 4, 2026.

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ServiceGrok
StartedAug 4, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
ResolvedAug 4, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Total duration10 minutes
Peak severityPossible Outage
DetectionDirect availability check

Timeline

  1. Possible issue detected
  2. Confirmed by re-check
  3. Service responding normally

What happened

On Aug 4, 2026, Grok appeared to experience a possible outage lasting 10 minutes, according to our automated monitoring. The incident was first detected by Are The Bots Down's monitoring system at Aug 4, 2026 at 07:40 UTC and our checks resumed normal results at Aug 4, 2026 at 07:50 UTC. Automated availability checks against publicly accessible endpoints reported the issue during this window. 2 status observations were recorded across the lifetime of this incident.

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